Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The coworker of the future needs to think beyond the comfort zone of the known, use divergent and convergent thinking, and approach challenges and opportunities in an iterative and innovative way. Probably the most important sustainability quality is the capacity to influence. Influence means getting things done.

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Quality Influence Learning-by-Doing Network Organization 197

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Executives who share the same values and understand the company’s mission and vision are likelier to drive innovation, build strong teams, and foster a positive work environment.

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Insurance Execution Long-term Diversity 243

N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Developments of global network organizations. Great attention for innovation. Strategic cooperation’s with (parts of) companies without changes in ownership structures. Companies are becoming increasingly information sensitive, and at the same time vulnerable for third parties.

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Decentralization Trends Career Network Organization 150

Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Execution Six Sigma Strategy Information Technology 101

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Their ability to build relationships and establish strong networks is crucial in fostering collaboration and securing resources for the organization’s sustained growth. In essence, the executive director’s leadership and influence are vital in ensuring the long-term success and sustainability of the organization.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networked” organization. In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond. In a network organization, leaders need to effectively influence people without line authority.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

LDRLB

MARCH 9, 2016

Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. How networked organizations are the way of the future. Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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McCallum Network Organization Consultative Review 60

Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Instead of looking for immediate results, they would use what they learned about organizing protests to build a massive networked organization, called Otpor , that would transcend political factions. They reflected on past failures and were determined not to repeat the same mistakes.

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Wilde Politics Network Organization Open-book 55

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2020

So why would we think that putting women in the same networks as men would lead to equal outcomes?”. The study utilized data from a networking organization designed to help entrepreneurs grow their client list. In total there were 2,310 entrepreneurs operating across 37 networks.

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Entrepreneur Human Capital Reference Operations 45

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

There were no real conversations about the bigger picture, how to get better results through clever resourcing or innovation. Christine’s team and organization thrived under her new leadership, boosting revenue tenfold and setting industry benchmarks for performance. If you didn’t, you’d better raise your game.

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Benchmarking CEO Network Organization Execution 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. ” GE recognizes that a networked business model requires a networked organization. Vice chair Beth Comstock is focused on transforming GE into an “emergent organization.”

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Airlines Business Model Strategy Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. Today, we live in a time of transformation every bit as colossal as what Weber saw a century ago: a shift from hierarchical to networked organizations. If it can fit on an org chart, it’s not a network.

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Organization Bureaucracy Network Organization Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Google has its nine principles of innovation. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations. Although rare, there are companies that have made the shift from process to principles-based management. Wikipedia has its five pillars. Red Hat has embraced open source principles.

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Agility Delegation Objective Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. Indeed, few creative ideas ever become innovative products or services. And yet too many managers see a lack of innovation in their companies and lament their teams’ “lack of creativity.” HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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